Category: General News

Coffee Caliente gives Good Samaritan a dozen winners

First-Crop sire Good Samaritan was represented by his 12th winner Saturday at Hawthorne when Coffee Caliente was a 1 ½-length maiden special weight winner at six furlongs (WATCH RACE). The bay 2-year-old was already stakes-placed from his prior start in the Shakopee Juvenile and was a handy winner on Saturday. After taking the lead in […]

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WinStar Farm announces 2023 stallion roster and fees

WinStar Farm has set 2023 stud fees for its stallion roster, headed by Constitution who will stand for $110,000 S&N and Speightstown who will stand for $80,000 S&N for the upcoming breeding season. The roster will be bolstered further by new arrivals Life Is Good, a multiple Grade 1 winner who will stand for $100,000 […]

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Ben Hanley joins WinStar Farm’s bloodstock team

WinStar Farm has announced the hiring of Ben Hanley as the newest member of its Stallion Season Sales team. With a degree in equine science from the University of Kentucky and a degree from the Irish National Stud course, Hanley begins his new position following stints with Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott in Saratoga, […]

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Good Samaritan filly goes gate to wire in maiden victory

First-Crop sire Good Samaritan’s latest winner came in front-running fashion Aug. 31 at Delaware Park when Secret Angel scored by two lengths in a one-mile maiden race for 2-year-old fillies. Secret Angel, who was making her second lifetime start and first around two turns, took the lead right away from her inside post. April Luck […]

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Tourist gets his second stakes winner of the week at Monmouth Park

I Can Run gave Tourist his second stakes winner in the past six days on Sunday when the 3-year-old filly captured the $100,000 Eleven North H. at Monmouth Park. I Can Run was making her stakes debut in the six-furlong Eleven North. Breaking from post 7 she was three-wide while several lengths off the pace […]

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WinStar Farm’s world-renowned stallion More Than Ready euthanized

Few stallions in the world have attained the heights of WinStar Farm’s remarkable More Than Ready. A Champion Sire in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and a world-renowned stallion who has made an indelible mark on the breed, More Than Ready was euthanized this morning due to the cumulative effects of old age, the […]

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Speightstown colt lives up to billing in $200,000 Funny Cide S.

Andiano a Firenze cruised to a 5 ½-length win in Friday’s $200,000 Funny Cide S. at Saratoga to give the well-related 2-year-old Speightstown colt his first stakes win. The winner, who was the odds-on favorite in the 6 ½-furlong race, is a half-brother to $2.8 million earner Firenze Fire. Andiamo a Firenze was widest of […]

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Tourist colt sets track record in first stakes victory

Carpenters Call turned in a dynamic performance to get his first stakes win in Monday’s $100,000 Peach Street S. at Presque Isle Downs, setting a track record for the 1 mile and 70 yard event while winning by 1 ¼-lengths. The 4-year-old Tourist colt has had a very productive year in 2022, with four wins […]

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Love in the Air scores another stakes win for red-hot Constitution

Love in the Air rolled to a front-running six-length victory in Monday’s $100,000 Mrs. Penny S. at Parx to become the fourth stakes winner this month for leading Fourth-Crop sire Constitution. She is her sire’s ninth stakes winner and one of 26 black type horses in 2022, both of which lead all Fourth-Crop sires. Love […]

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Good Samaritan filly keeps finding more in maiden special weight win

O Shaughesey repelled a late challenge to earn her first victory Saturday in a five-furlong maiden special weight affair at Laurel Park. The 2-year-old filly is the third winner from Good Samaritan’s first crop of runners, with all three coming in maiden special weight races. The WinStar stallion has four MdSpWt entries over the next […]

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